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BANGKOK -- Consumer electronics chains are growing rapidly in Southeast Asia, riding a wave of demand for household appliances in the region. Stores like Electronic City Indonesia and Thailand's Central Group, the region's biggest retailer, are

TOKYO -- Japan Post will launch this fall an international parcel delivery service covering China, India and Southeast Asia, using the logistics network of French partner Geopost. Japan Post's international mail service already handles packages.

TOKYO -- Japanese and other companies stand to benefit from the new opportunities that could open up in Asia for improving public transportation, catalyzed by a recent study showing how much major cities would benefit economically from easing traffi

HANOI -- The Vietnamese government plans to sell off shares in more than 300 state-owned enterprises by the end of 2015 in a new round of partial privatizations meant to rouse a sluggish economy. But investors are skeptical about the prospect of

GUANGZHOU, China -- China's trade with Southeast Asia is losing steam, and territorial disputes with its southern neighbors are not helping matters. For more than a decade until 2013, the value of trade between China and members of the Associati

TOKYO -- Manufacturers are moving production bases from country to country in search of lower labor costs, and the garment industry, which faces some of the world's stiffest price competition, is no exception. But while a growing number of cloth

TOKYO -- Faced with growing shortages of labor, some Japanese restaurant operators are turning to foreign part-time workers, hoping some of them can one day help with the companies' overseas expansion. Eat & Co., which operates Chinese eatery ch

HANOI -- As the looming end of import tariffs stokes fears of cheap cars from abroad, Toyota Motor is urging the government to provide tax incentives for keeping production in Vietnam, with an executive warning that the automaker might otherwise lea

NEW DELHI -- Four years after a free trade agreement relating to goods came into effect between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the trade partners have gone a step further with a supplementary trade in services and investment a

TOKYO -- Astro Malaysia Holdings will sell television programs that it produces to such overseas markets as Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam by tapping Malaysia's multilingual culture, the head of the country's largest satellite TV service provider

East Asia is on the front lines of climate change. Hundreds of millions of people in the region live in and outside cities in low-lying areas, facing increasing risks from rising seas, heat waves, droughts, salinity intrusion and water scarcity. We

HANOI -- Vinaphone, Vietnam's third-largest mobile network operator, has formed a strategic partnership with the U.K.'s Vodaphone Group. The two already cooperate within the context of the Conexus Mobile Alliance, but now they will strengthen th

As humans, we tend to chase after the global notion of "success" while neglecting its true value, which isn't fame, fortune or power but "emotional well-being." According to the World Health Organization's first report on suicide prevention, rel

HANOI -- VietJet Air will begin direct flights to Japan at the end of this year, offering the growing legions of Vietnamese tourists seats for 30% less than the direct flights now run by All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines and Vietnam Airlines. T

TOKYO -- CyberAgent will open an office in Vietnam later this month for its growing Internet advertising business. By March, the office will employ 100 people handling data entry and summarization tasks. Internet ads are bought and sold auto

TOKYO/FRANKFURT -- Lazada is quickly becoming an e-commerce behemoth in Southeast Asia, branching out into six countries in a mere two years, as global giants and local players vie for a bigger slice of this burgeoning market. Lazada, founded in

HANOI -- The spinoff of a cellphone business from Vietnam's state-owned telecom giant promises to shake up the country's wireless market by stoking competition and opening the door for foreign companies. Ownership of MobiFone was transferred fro